Beth Kanter and Allison Fine's book, The Networked Nonprofit, is now out and starting lots of conversations. But what's everyone talking about? Below I've shared some excerpts and resources to get you started and ready to join in!

Getting Started

Let's start at the beginning: what is a "networked nonprofit" anyway? As Beth and Allison explain:

The Case Foundation's follow-up research and assessment report from their 2007-2008 America's Giving Challenge has been getting a lot of love on Twitter, and just in case you missed it, here it is:

The Giving Challenge: Assessment and Reflection Report

The report was written by the always fabulous Allison Fine and Beth Kanter.

A few highlights:

I was recently fortunate to speak with Allison Fine, an all-around do-gooder in the world of tech 2.0 (or whatever we're calling it these days - what are we calling it these days?) Among the many fabulous things for which Allison has been responsible, you might recall Give List, a crowdsourced a list of volunteery things that could be offered for Christmas. The project was developed in partnership with Techsoup/NetSquared C.E.O. Marnie Web.

Allison and I discussed - in essence - the planning of the order-of-operations used to put into action meaningful and effective web-outreach campaigns.

These varied social media suggestions make up the third part of my on-going case study of and strategy suggestions for the United Church of Christ's social media strategy, it's attempt to resonance with young people (Millennials in particular), and its potentially forward-moving direction.

"Rather than worry about what the next widget is going to be, I really hope as a community we can focus on how to become more open and connected in order to use any new widget for success."--Allison Fine

Below is a transcript of my interview for the NetSquared Podcast with Allison Fine, author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age.   Enjoy!